What is Snake-a-doo? What made you come up with this idea? Can you briefly share some numbers related to “people dying due to snake bites, types of snakes, the density of snakes in different areas within India, snake deaths, impact on food chain etc… What was the process of making it? Initial iterations, user testing […]
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Generative Art
Broad What is Generative art/design? Because these days, Generative AI is a buzzword, how different or similar it is? How and where do you classify your style of work? Which genre, or category does it belong? Your work seems to be abstract. Can you help us understand the landscape of this kind of work by […]
Designing spaces
Let’s start with what kind of work you exactly do. What are exhibition design and set design? What is the kind of brief you get? Which are the entities involved in any exhibition and while making a set; from a designer’s point of view? How does a space for an exhibition come to be? What […]
Mud as a material
According to BV Doshi, cement is just another material. It depends on how we use it. What’s wrong with cement? What’s so beautiful about mud as a material? It gives a lot of warmth. What’s the extent to which Mud as a material can be exploited? Can we build a skyscraper with mud? In UI […]
Being interdisciplinary
What is your definition of design and what’s your definition of art? What does it really mean to be an interdisciplinary designer or an artist? Is it an outcome to input? How do you compare it with being a T-shaped designer? Can one start being interdisciplinary? As Massimo Vignelli says, “if you can design one […]
Production design
What does a film mean to you? What are the other 2 things that matter the most to you in a film apart from the story? I guess, in the early days of cinema, there was not really an explicit role of a production designer (at least in India). Most of the stuff was done […]
What can design do
What’s your definition of design? How has it changed over time? What according to you is a “short term” and “long term” view on using Design, for profitability? What according to you, design can really do and what are we doing? What is the “What can design do” competition about? What are the fundamental aspects […]
What can design do in India?
As we say, “India has many Indias.” We also do not have a literal translation of the word “Design” in India. We have kala, Karigari, and many more. How and where do you see Design in India? Our education system is mainly inspired by the west which in the initial days (before personalization) was designed […]
Re-designing cities
Today we are focusing on redesigning cities using Bengaluru as a peg. In your experience how do we reimagine a city that is bursting at the seams and having a host of problems? As Pranay Kotasthane from Puliya Baazi says, Over population is not the problem but under governance is… Let us take the recent […]
Designing Green events
How did “Nose to Tail” come to be? Whats with the name? What do you girls do exactly? Why? Can you share landscape of events w.r.t number of events, types of events that happen on a regular day in India. Or if you want to address your TAM. What all types of waste that is […]